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Information is beautiful

JA October 28

There are some wonderful things going on with infographics (visual representations of facts, statistics and data) at the moment. With the advent of the web and digital programming, this industry has taken a new turn and all around are various blogs and sites operating on the single, simple premise that information is beautiful and should be presented according. Here are just a handful:

Visualisation of Vessel Movements, by Niels Willems, Huub van de Wetering and Jarke J. van Wijk (2009), via Visual Complexity

Lichen Growing | Forest, a world map showing the land area covered by forests in 2000 (the data ‘grows itself’ to reflect the density of the forests), by Imitate | Formitate (2009), via Infosthetics

50 Years of Space Exploration, by Sean McNaughton (National Geographic) and Simon Velasco (2009), via Infosthetics

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions, by David McCandless (2009), via Information is Beautiful

And finally, one from the 1930s – Graphic Presentation by Willard Cope Brinton (1939), via Flowing Data

 

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